But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning
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- Unpacking how large language models work under the hood
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Other recommended resources on the topic.
Richard Turner's introduction is one of the best starting places:
arxiv.org/pdf/2304.10557.pdf
Coding a GPT with Andrej Karpathy
• Let's build GPT: from ...
Introduction to self-attention by John Hewitt
web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n...
History of language models by Brit Cruise:
• ChatGPT: 30 Year Histo...
Paper about examples like the “woman - man” one presented here:
arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3781.pdf
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Timestamps
0:00 - Predict, sample, repeat
3:03 - Inside a transformer
6:36 - Chapter layout
7:20 - The premise of Deep Learning
12:27 - Word embeddings
18:25 - Embeddings beyond words
20:22 - Unembedding
22:22 - Softmax with temperature
26:03 - Up next
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@3Blue1Brown thanks explaining these things - it is very hard for web programmer to undestand math
Grant, this is so good! I've worked in ML about 8 years and this is one of the best descriptions I've seen. Very nicely done. Big 👍👍👍
Is this worth understanding?
@@JohnSegrave sir, could you recomend video analysis framework any video description model?
Could you share the name of the model that is used for text-to-speech generation ? Me and my teammate are working on a Song Translator as a senior design project. This might be very helpful. Thanks in advance :)
I graduated from Computer Science in 2017. Back then, the cutting edge of ML were Recurrent Neural Networks, in which I based my thesis. This video (and I'm sure the rest of this series) just allowed me to catch up to years of advancements in so little time.
I cannot describe how important your teaching style is to the world. I've been reading articles, blogs, papers on embeddings and these topics for years now and I never got it quite like I got it today. In less than 30 minutes.
Imagine a world in which every teacher taught like you. We would save millions and millions of man hours every hour.
You truly have something special with this channel and I can only wish more people started imitating you with the same level of quality and care. If only this became the standard. You'd deserve a Noble Prize for propelling the next thoustand Nobel Prizes.
Second that!
Same, I did a thesis about vectorize word back in 2017 and no one ever talked about the whole vector of word gives rise to meaning and context when you generate phrases.
Too bad since noone was interested in ML back then, I leaned on web development and drop the ML :(
Funny enough, the other 6 videos in this series all came out in 2017, so you probably didn't miss much.
Well transformers were first developed in 2017 so it was the cutting edge exactly when you graduated ^^
This is explained in layman terms, but in reality is more complicated than this
Grant casually uploading the best video on Transformers on TH-cam
i was expecting froggin electromagnets to be honest :-)
This video was insanely good!
Even having a basic understanding of what it is, this was still extremely helpful!
yeah but it did not talk about transformers in this chapter
I wish I could retweet this post.
The fact that meaning behind tokens is embedded into this 12000 dimensional space, and you get relationships in terms of coordinates and direction, that exists across topics is mind blowing. Like, Japan -> sushi is similar to Germany -> bratwurst is just so darn neat
I actually went berserk when I saw that part of the video, so friggin cool.
And it makes the absurdly ham fisted model tampering behind debacles like the Gemini launch look even more absurd. I can hear the troglodytes mobbing in the nth dimension.
I‘ve come to this realization long time ago then I want to find isomorphic structures of concepts across different disciplines
@@dayelu2679🤓
You can actually try this out in your nearest large language model, like ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, or Mistral. Just ask it to do vector math on the words. Since there isn't a predefined vector word calculus in English, the LLM defaults to just using a version of its own internal representation, and so it can eke out pretty results. I was able to duplicate Hitler - Germany + Italy = Mussolini and sushi - Japan + Germany = sausage (or bratwurst, bother score highly) in GPT-3.5-Turbo Complete.
It also figured out sushi - Japan + Lebanon = shawarma; sushi - Japan + Korea = kimchi; Hitler - Germany + Spain = Franco; and Hitler - Germany + Russia = Stalin.
This video is gonna blow up. The visualizations will help many people that aren't familiar with NN's or Deep Learning to at least grasp a little bit what is happening under the hood. And with the crazy popularity of LLM's nowadays, this will for sure interest a lot of people
as someone who gave a lot of fellow students lessons in stem field classes i can tell you that the sheer amount of numbers arranged in matrices will immediately shut down the average persons brain...
No, normal people just want to party.
I was trying to understand chatGPT through videos and texts on the Internet. I always said: I wish 3b1b releases a video about it, it's the only way for someone inexperienced to understand, and here it is. Thank you very much for your contributions to youtube!!
no even the other videos are kinda meh, even if youre not inexperienced because they dont go in depth, i feel here people get a nice understanding of the concepts captured by the models instead of just the architecture of the models
It's kind of true, but if I had to recommend a good place to actually understand transformers and even other machine learning things I would definitely recommend StatQuest, its levels of clearly explaining what's going on are very high. But I'm also very excited to see how 3B1B is going to render all that visually as always
I was also just looking into transformers due to their extreme takeover in computer vision!
shoulda just asked chatgpt
NLP specialization by Andrew covered everything 😅
The return of the legend! This series is continuing, that is the best surprise of TH-cam, thanks Grant, you have no idea how much the young population of academia is indebted to you.
I'm 26, young engineer. Thinking the same. Well said.
I liked your comment because I'm sure you're right but don't be ageist! 😊 Us olds love him too!
Young and seniors alike
This is heaven for visual learners. Animations are correlated smoothly with the intended learning point ...
There's no such thing as visual learners. Other than the blind, all humans are visual creatures. It's heaven for anyone who wants to learn.
@@gorgolyt You are right. The human get input from 5 senses , but 90 percent of the brain receptors are directly connected to optical and auditory nerves. That is where the visual dominates the other senses ... For blind people the auditory dominates...
2 years ago I started studying transformers, backpropagation and the attention mechanism. Your videos were a corner stone for my understanding of those concepts!
And now, partially thanks to you, I can say: “yeah, relatively smooth to understand”
I don't even know how many times I'm going to rewatch this.
True
3B1B doens't need to be saved in watch later folder because all his videos are worth watching later.
What will you set your weights n biases too?
same
I have been working on transformers for the past few years and this is the greatest visualization of the underlying computation that I have seen. Your videos never disappoint!!
So if we "stop" you... then we avoid judgement day? We should meet for coffee
@@brian8507 "judgement day" 😭
@@brian8507 bro's got underlying psychological issues
I agree with you . Visualization is perfect way to understanding transformer architecture. Specifically attention mechanism
@@giacomobarattini1130its later than you thinj
I wish i had a friend as passionate as this channel is. It's like finding my family I've always wanted to have
I wish the same thing
become friends already you both
here we are 3b1bro now
Lets become friends
Man! You never fail to enlighten, entertain, and inspire us, nor do we get enough of your high-quality, yet very digestible, content! Thank you, Grant!
You *must* turn the linguistic vector math bit into a short. -Japan+sushi+germany=bratwurst is pure gold.
I am slightly offended it did not result in "Fischbrötchen".
@@XMysticHerox It was trained in English words only.
@@marshmellominiapple ChatGPT supports 95 languages. Not all equally well. But as a German yes it works just as well with german as it does with english.
@@marshmellominiapple Word2Vec and other vector embeddings of words like glove or whatever don't care about language. They don't "understand" the meaning of the words, they just eventually find patterns in unstructured data to create the embeddings. It works in any language and GPT has a ton of other languages in its training data
You can actually try this out in your nearest large language model, like ChatGPT, CoPilot, Gemini, or Mistral. Just ask it to do vector math on the words. Since there isn't a predefined vector word calculus in English, the LLM defaults to just using a version of its own internal representation, and so it can eke out pretty results. I was able to duplicate Hitler - Germany + Italy = Mussolini and sushi - Japan + Germany = sausage (or bratwurst, bother score highly) in GPT-3.5-Turbo Complete.
It also figured out sushi - Japan + Lebanon = shawarma; sushi - Japan + Korea = kimchi; Hitler - Germany + Spain = Franco; and Hitler - Germany + Russia = Stalin.
Writing my first academically published paper on AI rn and I have to say as a engineer in this space, this is one of the most complete and well nuanced explanations of these tools. Gold, nay platinum standard for educational content on this topic for decades to come.
Yes. I really hope that he gets some lifetime achievement massive-footprint-in-a-good-sense type of award in the MINT Edu field.
Just brillant.. there is no video in TH-cam that explains concepts in such a clever way
Thank you! You're so late 3Blue1Brown, it took me 10 hours of videos + blogs last year to understand what a transformer is! This is the long waited video! I'm sending this to all my friends.
Its astonishing, amazing that this kind of info and explaination quality is available for free, this is way better than a University would explain it
Universities are buildings. Buildings can't talk. Therefore, they cannot explain.
here's to hoping this is not an April fools
it is - you would be a fool to not watch this video
It's 2nd April here
@@anuragpranavEven if you already know the subject? 😂
@@TheUnderscore_ it's never a bad idea to review what you know
@@TheUnderscore_ you are almost certainly limiting what you might know with that approach
I have always been blown away by how great your visualization is for explaining ML concepts. Thanks a lot!
You never cease to amaze me. This is a must watch for any engineer or data scientist. You deserve to be the top one youtube channel. Thank you brother
Grant shows just how creative you can get with linear algebra. Who would have guessed language (?!) was within its reach?
Look up "Word2Vec", it's an interestingly explored idea.
Linear algebra would not be enough, but a nonlinear activation function (even one as simple as max(x, 0)) makes it enough to approximate anything you want just by adding more neurons!
Given words are descriptors and numbers are just arbitrarily precise adjectives... aka descriptions...
@@Jesin00 Yes, lin alg alone isn't enough.
Well ML uses linear algebra and he just explains it
I always thought when people in the media say, "NO ONE actually understands how chat GPT works" they were lying, but no one was ever able to explain it in layman's terms regardless. I feel like this video is exactly the kind of digestible info that people need, well done.
Machine learning engineer here - plenty of people understand how the architecture of chatGPT works on a high level. When people in the media say that, what they mean is that nobody understands the underlying processing that the parameters are using to go from a list of tokens to a probability distribution over possible next tokens.
It's not a lie, it's just not very precise. No one can tell you exactly why one model decided the next word is "the" while another decided the next word is "a" and in that sense no one understands how a particular model works. The mechanism for how you train and run the model are understood however.
@@kevinscalesyeah just like any deep ANN
Think of it as the difference between knowing how genetics and DNA and replication works vs. knowing why a specific nucleotide in the human genome is adenine rather than guanine.
There is an entire field of machine learning research dedicated to understanding how neural nets work beyond the architecture called AI interpretability.
No one fully understands what the learned parameters mean. Many people understand the process by which they were learned.
You are such an AMAZING teacher. I feel like you've really given thought to the learners perception and are kind enough to take the time and address asides and gotchas while you meticulously build components and piece them together all with a very natural progression that's moving towards "something" (hopefully comprehension). Thank you so much for your time, effort, and the quality of your work.
It's absolutely ridiculous how many aspects of this topic finally clicked for me in this intro video already. This was incredibly well explained an I'm so thrilled for the next chapters. Thank you very much, Grant!
This series should continue. I thought it was dead after the 4th video. Lots of love and appreciation for your work
Straight up the best video on this topic. The idea that the dimensions of the embedding space represent different properties of a token that can be applied across tokens is just SO cool!
i felt that
orienting and ordering the space (called the 'latent' space) so that the most significant directions come first is called 'principal component analysis' (useful for giving humans the reigns to some degree since we get to turn those knobs and see something interesting but vaguely predictable happen)
I agree. I starting writing about that in a comment about 2 seconds into the video before I knew how well he was going to cover it since it's usually glossed over way too much in other introductions to these topics.
I've been following this high-quality channel for years. And I don't know how it continues to improve over time.
Thank you for your hard work of popularization of complex notions and your work of aid to intuition with increible visual representations,
really I take my hat off to you, once more : Thank You
I’m a professional in this field, but always there is so much more to learn and understand. This is so incredibly high level and detailed at the same time, with so much intuition. Masterfully presented, thank you ❤
Im a mechanical engineering student, but I code machine learning models for fun. I was telling my girlfriend just last night that your series on dense neural networks is the best to gain an intuitive understanding on the basic architecture of neural networks. You have no idea what a pleasant surprise it was to wake up to this!
good man
It doesn't have to be just for fun. I was also in Mechanical Engineering, picked a master in control theory. And now I get to use Deep learning and NN's for intelligent control systems. Where you learn a model or a controller by making use of machine learning
You made my day!! This topic was taught at my grad school and I needed some intuition today and you have uploaded the video!!! It seems you heard me!!Thanks a ton!! Please upload video of Vision Transformers, if possible
This is absolutely one of the best videos for explaining the workings of LLMs. Love the visualisation and the innate ease with which the concepts were explained.
Hats off!!
I listened to my professor explaining the crazy equation of softmax for a semester already, and you explained it so well with how temperature also plays a role there. Big RESPECT!
18:45 This the the clearest layman explanation of how attention works that I've ever seen. Amazing.
The idea of describing a vector basis as a long list of questions you need to answer is exactly the teaching tool I needed in my kit!! I love that perspective!
Ooh attention ! Looking forward to it. Thank for feeding our attention span with such quality visualisations. From gradients to signifiant coordinates in concept space your visual language keeps getting more refined and synthetic. The adventure through back propagation was rather mind-bending. This series is amazing.
This guy taught me how to build a neural network from scratch, I was waiting for this video, I even posted a request for it in the subreddit for this channel. I’m very glad this finally exists
I appreciate that you explain tokenization correctly and the usefulness of simplifying it. Many explanations skip all that and just state that the tokens are words.
Apart from the fact that tokens CAN actually be longer than a word, too. :) Sub-word token does not mean that tokens must be smaller than a word.
There is a related idea here in how Roombas navigate houses. They clearly are forming a map of your house in their memory, but there is no guarantee they see it the same way we do i.e. the different zones they see in your house may not correspond nicely to the actual rooms in the house. In the end, though, it doesn't really matter, as long as the job gets done correctly
We need more Computer Science education like this! Amazing 🔥
Honestly I hope that in future, AI can produce such great content. This will probably tend to take a couple of years more, but I guess its possible. Even better: You got your own Curriculum based on your strengthens and weaknesses. For me this would be a combination of fireship and 3blue1brown content...
This is genuinely one of the best pieces of science / tech communication I have ever seen. Well done and thank you!
This channel is so good!!
The way such complicated topics are broken down and explained is really of the highest standard.
Please never stop making videos!
This couldn't have come at a better time for me! I'm very excited for this continuation of the series. Thanks Grant!
The best video explaining the transformer architecture that I've seen so far... and there are really good videos covering this topic. Thank you!!
Your videos are the only ones I watch multiple times to get the hang of it. But the way you visualize and explain it makes it way more enjoyable and interesting. Love your videos ❤
The quality of these videos and depth of openings of the deeper meaning is simply mind blowing
Amazing work, your simple explanations in other videos in this series really helped me get a better understanding of what my masters classes were covering. Glad to see you’re continuing this series! ❤
Your explanation tends to always be the best! Love how you visualise all these.
Thank you so much for this video. I have watched many on the topic and they teach you some parts, but you connected all the missing dots in a very effective way. Thanks.
Seriously amazing content. The way you present things visually is excellently done.
this channel is so good at making math interesting, all my friends think im wack for enjoying math videos but its not hard to enjoy when you make them like this
Thank you so much for the immense work and talent that goes into your videos!
This is by far the most organized explanation i've seen about transformers.
The visual of this video are next level, really help the comprehension of the subject
ok, you read my mind. From all of the channels, I am so glad, it's you explaining Transformers.
I wish I had you as a teacher. You make math so much more fun than I know it already❤
WOW!!!! I loved this. I learned so much, with just the right amount of mathematical depth for a CS major who last did linear algebra 40 years ago.
the amount of work in this video is huge like the mountain of Fuji
I know the material of this chapter very well. Still, I watched it in its entirety just for the pleasure of watching a masterful presentation, the restful and authoritative cadence of the voice, and the gorgeous animation. Well done, Grant, yet again.
I usually gloss over your videos as it gets more technical. But whatever you did this time, kept me hooked the whole time.
Your teaching skills are beyond compare. The effort you put into your videos clearly shows.
Just a few weeks back, had trouble understanding what transformers are and I am blessed to see this video pop up, just when I needed it. Thank you for making such amazing videos.
OH MY GOODNESS
Your timing is just right! I'm learning about deep neural nets and transformers will be my next topic this week.
I'M SO EXCITED, I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT!
I'M ABOUT TO LOSE MY MIND AND I THINK I LIKE IT!
So you’re telling me computer models can quantify “a few” or “some” based on how close the value is to a given word of a number from its usage from training data?
I love this
Well, a bit.
Well it can encode any semantic meaning only really limited by the number of parameters and quality of training data.
@@XMysticHerox quantity*
Wow!! I've no prep in math, analisis, programmig, machie learning, etc... and can grab the concept!
What a MIRACLE have you done here! Good work! 🤯
Brilliant! Although I already knew pretty much everything presented here, it brings a great visual touch to all the concepts which helps sink those even deeper into the mind. Terrific job as usual! Looking forward to the next chapters of the series!
this is the best series from you by far. excited for its revival
Most exciting part of my week by far
Hi Grant, when I first saw your original 5 deep learning videos I was in my second to last year of high-school, they were my first introduction to ML and deep learning, and they played a part in me choosing to study Computer Science as an undergraduate. Now, five years later I am working on my masters thesis where I am using Vision Transformers :)
The easiest lesson on a hard topic I've ever had. Super clear.
Im in highschool, and i only knew broken pieces of how it works , but you really connected all the pieces together and added the missing ones
I love 3Blue1Brown series ..the linear algebra series was really the state-of-the-art and recognized globally for AI enthusiasts like myself. Now hot topics such as Transformers and GenAI , this is really the best explanation by far. Its short and precise and that's what we want.
I don't usually comment on videos, but this is one of the best videos I've seen on transformers, extremely detailed but very easy to understand!
thank you so much. as a highschool student who's deeply intrigued by LLMs and deep learning, this was so much better than me trying to interpret the "attention is all you need" paper myself (with LLMs to help, ironically) haha.
this is hands down the best resource on the transformer architecture and deep learning I've ever found - and I've been through a LOT.
thank you :)
I can't believe Sam Altman has become a billionaire just by multiplying some matrices
You'd be surprised at how many billionaires got there from multiplying some matrices
Also, gets away with calling it "machine learning".
It's too much reduction, he added value on a higher level. But yeah, when you look deep enough, everything stops looking like magic.
@@tiborsaas And that is a good thing in many cases, it casts away illogical fears when you understand that there is no any kind of magic or thinking behind this. In practice it is just overhpyed guessing machine what word normally might come after X.
@@user-gw3yb3ki6w this concept comes from 2017. We should actually be very very worried and keeping our eye closely on the progress that AI is making. The amount of progress they have made since the 2017 paper 📝 “Attention is all you need “ is insane.
Hello 3b1b, I wanted to say a huge thank you for this specific video. This was exactly what I've been needing. Every now and again, I thought to myself, as someone who's been interested in machine learning for my whole adult life, that I should really get a deep understanding of how a transformer works, to the point that I could implement a functional, albeit not efficient, one myself.
Well, I'm on my way to that, this is at least a great introduction (and knowing your channel I really mean GREAT), and I really wanted to thank you for that!
I know this is not much, but I'm not in a position to support this channel in a more meaningful way at the moment.
Anyways, take care, and thanks again!
I'm glad you enjoyed. In case some how you haven't already come across them, I'd recommend the videos Andrej Karpathy does on coding up a GPT. In general, anything he makes is gold.
You are a genius who teaches extremely well. Thank you for all of your videos and what you give back to the community.
Deep learning is back baby!
A short 6 year 5 month wait!
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the 'embeddings beyond words' segment levelled up my understanding of how machine learning 'thinks'. thank you!
It amazing that this knowledge is free, really learned a lot from this short session. Definitely will binge watch your videos.
Without watching i can say that this is going to be the best transformers video on yt
Right you are.
It is
Hang on, I thought this series was done! I'm delighted!
Love that bit about the word embeddings and how each direction in that high dimensional space carries some semantic meaning to a certain degree. Haven't heard something i found that interesting in years!
Thank you so much. We were just learning about transformer architecture in our deep learning course. This was really helpful for visualizing word embeddings!
The BEST AI video. Highly recommended !
As an ML researcher this is an amazing video ❤. But please allow me to nitpick a little at 21:45
It’s important to note that while the “un-embedding layer” of a Transformer typically have a different set of weights from the embedding layer, in OpenAI’s GPT model each vector for each word in the un-embedding layer is exactly the same vector as ones in the embedding layer.
This is not the case for Transformer models that has the output be in a different domain than the input (e.g, translating to a different language), but since the video is specifically talking about GPT. This is the specific of the implementation detailed in the “Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training” paper by OpenAI.
The reusing weights make sense here because each the vector from the embedding is a sort of “context free” representation of the word. So there is not need to learn another set of weights.
The amount of depth and efforts invested in this video, makes this channel the best channel on TH-cam.
I initially learned about transformers through text, but watching this video with its awesome gifs really brought the concept to life! Such a visually captivating way to understand complex topics.
YOU DID IT!
I emailed you about this video idea about 8 months ago and I've been patiently waiting for you to release this since!
wow, great idea!
YOU DID IT JACKSON! I texted you to email him this idea about 9 months ago. Now the bab- video is there!
Damit nice April fools joke, I got fooled into learning something.
And again and again and again in the pool of Million explenations, Yours is the one that makes the topic understandable for everyone who is able to watch and listen. Great work!
I'm currently working with Transformer models on a regular basis, and still your video helped me look at underlying ideas in a new way. Thanks as always Grant!
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I started my deep learning journey from your original videos on deep learning. They inspired me to work in this field. I am about to start my first internship as a researcher in this field. Thank you 3blue1brown for this.
Also this is the best video that I have seen through my many hundred videos from when I was stuck in tutorial hell on many of these concepts
Just in time to be replaced by them >:).
Grant, this is the best explanation in detail I have ever seen, incredible, thank you for the work you do
The word embedding difference example is.. incredible
I never thought about it this way
Thank you so much for this!
Before I clicked on this video, I thought a Transformer was a fictional machine-like species that was being used as toys. Now I know that transformers are much more different. Thanks Grant.
They’re more than meets the eye. ;)
BRILLIANT! Absolutely BEST visualization I HAVE EVER SEEN! WoW. THANK YOU!
Gold resource! Great communication skill! Always a pleasure to listen to. Thank you
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